Her cast mates - who the show claims are her very best friends - appear to have been repeatedly blindsided on camera by these events. Instead of avoiding the cameras as she undergoes her divorce and other legal woes, Erika (also known by her stage name, Erika Jayne) filmed multiple episodes this season in which decisions, hearings, and news reports break in real time. The change in tone is the outcome of legal actions taken against Erika Girardi and her husband Tom - chief among them a lawsuit accusing the Real Housewife of using a phony divorce to hide millions of dollars that her ex-husband allegedly embezzled from his clients. Over the past two months, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has morphed from a plandid look at very rich women bickering about petty things - previous tiffs have included being late to a meetup and the adoption and return of a dog named Lucy Lucy Applejuicey - into a show centered more and more on one woman’s too-desperate performance to prove her innocence. Perhaps that’s why when actual reality intrudes on the world of these shows, it feels so alien. And I don’t mind that Bachelor contestants are in it more for growing their Instagram presences than they are at finding true love. I still enjoy the competition of Top Chef even though producers and the network have input on which contestants get eliminated. Like, I still watch House Hunters even though I’ve been informed that the house hunters have already chosen their homes prior to filming. To enjoy American reality television, you have to watch with the tacit understanding that the word reality is used.
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